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Byron Herbert Reece: Mountain Farmer, Mountain Poet

Byron Herbert Reece: Mountain Farmer, Mountain Poet Bettie Sellers Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 1986, pp. 3-7 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0078 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/440291/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 22:36 GMT from JHU Libraries BYRON HERBERT REECE, (1917-1958) Byron Herbert Reece was born and grew up in a secluded mountain area of North Georgia near Blairsville. He read Pilgrim's Progress and much of the Bible, upon which many of his later ballads were based, before he entered elementary school. As an adult, he was a lonely mountain man who was a modestly successful dirt farmer and a poet of surpassing genius. Reece had the ability to say new things in the old traditional forms, distinguished by their simplicity and accuracy. His poetry was mystical, lonely and often seemed preoccupied by death. Reece was perhaps the greatest balladeer of the Appalachians. During his short life, he received two prestigious Guggenheim awards and lectured as Writer-in-Residence at UCLA, Emory University and Young Harris College. Reece died by his own hand on the campus of Young Harris College in early June 1958. —Cherokee Publishing Co. 3 BYRON HERBERT REECE: MOUNTAIN FARMER, MOUNTAIN POET by Bettie http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Byron Herbert Reece: Mountain Farmer, Mountain Poet

Sellers, Bettie M.
Appalachian Review , Volume 14 (1) – Jan 8, 2014
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Bettie Sellers Appalachian Heritage, Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 1986, pp. 3-7 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1986.0078 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/440291/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 22:36 GMT from JHU Libraries BYRON HERBERT REECE, (1917-1958) Byron Herbert Reece was born and grew up in a secluded mountain area of North Georgia near Blairsville. He read Pilgrim's Progress and much of the Bible, upon which many of his later ballads were based, before he entered elementary school. As an adult, he was a lonely mountain man who was a modestly successful dirt farmer and a poet of surpassing genius. Reece had the ability to say new things in the old traditional forms, distinguished by their simplicity and accuracy. His poetry was mystical, lonely and often seemed preoccupied by death. Reece was perhaps the greatest balladeer of the Appalachians. During his short life, he received two prestigious Guggenheim awards and lectured as Writer-in-Residence at UCLA, Emory University and Young Harris College. Reece died by his own hand on the campus of Young Harris College in early June 1958. —Cherokee Publishing Co. 3 BYRON HERBERT REECE: MOUNTAIN FARMER, MOUNTAIN POET by Bettie

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